Post by dillwyn on Nov 12, 2017 11:37:08 GMT
don't recall him saying much about ELO but apparently is a fan (be warned it is a long long article)
illinoisentertainer.com/2017/11/cover-story-william-patrick-corgan/comment-page-1/
With filmmaker Linda Strawberry, Corgan even wrote and co-directed a surreal silent film that syncs to the running time of the album – another step into maturity he’s undertaken. Somehow, he drifts on to the subjects of obscure rock landmarks, and how only he and perhaps a handful of other artists were championing undiscovered ‘80s classics like Electric Light Orchestra’s Time (a record just begging to be made into a Broadway musical) when they were first released. He has much to say on this topic. “But unfortunately, we’re in a commercial business where might is right,” he growls. “And we don’t have a system like the Oscars, where there’s a sense that the Little Indie Movie That Could can reach the highest heights. You don’t get that sense in rock and roll.
“So let’s take (ELO’s main man) Jeff Lynne for a second,” he continues, on a passionate roll. “When I would name-check ELO a lot during the Mellon Collie period, people all laughed, like, ‘Ugh! ELO?!’ But somehow, in the last ten years, ELO has gone back up to where they belong – you hear their music, you hear people talking about them reverentially, and it’s not unusual to be walking down the street and hear “Mr. Blue Sky” blasting out of somebody’s car window. It’s like the politics got edged out and the music came forward.
Because 20 years ago, the chances of hearing ELO anywhere other than on classic rock radio were nil. So there’s that weird thing where culture has to convulse and vomit on itself before it sort of gets around to figuring out what was valuable and not valuable.” He laughs at the absurdity of the hipster concept. “So I feel pretty good about my own odds over time. But still, it’s been a pretty weird journey through other people’s record collections, where I keep getting told that what I was doing was super-relevant, even though it wasn’t considered relevant at the time. But now they want to pretend that I was always relevant, which is weird. And they want to devalue things that are valuable, just because they don’t fit into their little scheme of winners and losers.
illinoisentertainer.com/2017/11/cover-story-william-patrick-corgan/comment-page-1/
With filmmaker Linda Strawberry, Corgan even wrote and co-directed a surreal silent film that syncs to the running time of the album – another step into maturity he’s undertaken. Somehow, he drifts on to the subjects of obscure rock landmarks, and how only he and perhaps a handful of other artists were championing undiscovered ‘80s classics like Electric Light Orchestra’s Time (a record just begging to be made into a Broadway musical) when they were first released. He has much to say on this topic. “But unfortunately, we’re in a commercial business where might is right,” he growls. “And we don’t have a system like the Oscars, where there’s a sense that the Little Indie Movie That Could can reach the highest heights. You don’t get that sense in rock and roll.
“So let’s take (ELO’s main man) Jeff Lynne for a second,” he continues, on a passionate roll. “When I would name-check ELO a lot during the Mellon Collie period, people all laughed, like, ‘Ugh! ELO?!’ But somehow, in the last ten years, ELO has gone back up to where they belong – you hear their music, you hear people talking about them reverentially, and it’s not unusual to be walking down the street and hear “Mr. Blue Sky” blasting out of somebody’s car window. It’s like the politics got edged out and the music came forward.
Because 20 years ago, the chances of hearing ELO anywhere other than on classic rock radio were nil. So there’s that weird thing where culture has to convulse and vomit on itself before it sort of gets around to figuring out what was valuable and not valuable.” He laughs at the absurdity of the hipster concept. “So I feel pretty good about my own odds over time. But still, it’s been a pretty weird journey through other people’s record collections, where I keep getting told that what I was doing was super-relevant, even though it wasn’t considered relevant at the time. But now they want to pretend that I was always relevant, which is weird. And they want to devalue things that are valuable, just because they don’t fit into their little scheme of winners and losers.
, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?